Armenia faces mounting water security challenges as climate change intensifies floods and droughts. Reservoirs can play a pivotal role in managing these risks, ensuring water availability and supporting sustainable development through improved storage, infrastructure, and strategic planning initiatives. Hranoush Dermoyan explains.
As wildfires ravage Los Angeles, exposing unpreparedness and policy failures, parallels emerge with Armenia's challenges amid escalating threats by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Sheila Paylan highlights the need for vigilance and readiness against both natural disasters and geopolitical crises.
Seven years after Armenia ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change, Gor Samvel reviews measures Armenia has taken to implement key provisions of the treaty, focusing on mitigation, adaptation, transparency and compliance, highlighting achievements and areas in need of improvement.
Armenia faces growing challenges in managing its water resources. Lake Sevan, a crucial water source, is being overused for irrigation, raising concerns about long-term sustainability. Mariam Tashchyan explores the factors behind Armenia’s water crisis.
Armenia has pledged to expand forest coverage as part of its climate change mitigation efforts, echoing concerns that forests are the most endangered ecosystem in the country. By ratifying the Paris Agreement in 2017, it committed to increase forested areas. Gayane Mkrtchyan looks at the challenges and opportunities.
In this episode, Mikael Matossian, principal at Tetra Tech, discusses Armenia’s energy sector and the progress of clean technologies adoption. We examine the current state of Armenia’s energy production and evaluate several initiatives that aim to expand the share of energy derived from renewable sources in the country. Matossian provides insight into the significance of renewable energy adoption in addressing climate change and offers an overview of global trends and advancements in renewable technology.
For Armenia, domestic energy production is not a mere vanity goal, but a national security priority. As a country devoid of any apparent fossil fuel deposits, energy security means renewable energy. Raffi Elliot explains.
As the world is experiencing the effects of climate change, the accumulation of waste, which contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, should not be left out of the conversation.
Armenia is a country highly vulnerable to climate impacts. The most vulnerable sectors are agriculture, water resources, forestry, transport and energy infrastructure. Is Armenia’s government doing enough to mitigate the impact of climate change?
A professional in environmental management focusing on solar energy and water, Hasmik Barseghyan was part of Armenia’s delegation to COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. She says that although Armenia has and continues to face many challenges, it is possible to benefit from the opportunities of Armenia’s geography as the “center of the world”, linking different regions together.
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